What a brilliant video i wish it was still a railway. I believe a company wanted to make it a heritage railway with steam trains in 1970 when it closed but fell short with the funds to do it. Would have been great. Does anyone know what class dmu was used on this line.?
AWESOME....was on the trackbed yesterday......have we lost some overhead national grid cables or am I so used to seeing them. The Brickyard looks like something left over from a secret military experiment. If you know the Middlewood Way, watch it over and over and you will recognise more places each time. Still remember ''the foam place'' at Bollington , houses now occupy the site.......GREAT FIND.....p.s. The driver of last up train on Saturday night 3.1.1970 is still alive ( as at 16.6. 2018 )and living in Cheadle Hulme.
Amazing footage to come across.I went school in Macclesfield and caught the train home everyday to Prestbury. The Marple dmu train always left before us I always remember the squealing noise on the rails as it went onto the curve past the signal box and off along the viaduct past the gasworks. Never knew it was double track after the station junction and sadly never went on the line but remember the closure notice which caused travel problems for all the school kids that used it daily.
i live behind the old track(middle wood way) since 1978, most of the infrastructure was still there then. the coal yard, signal boxes ect. i can almost see my house on this film. great stuff. thanks
Tragic they pulled up this line. Many childhood memories riding a bike up "the old railway" before it became the Middlewood Way. Gobsmacked to see it in service. Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic discovery! Higher Poynton would have been my nearest station from home and it's amazing to see such exclusive footage of this former line. Liked the bits around Middlewood too; seeing both the brooks and station (both of which are still visible to this day).
I uploaded a piece of work I did on his railway, in March 2020, to Flickr, see- www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/49683351787/ for all the details, pictures and commentary.Some original pictures of my own, taken in 1972, feature prominently..
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What a brilliant video i wish it was still a railway.
I believe a company wanted to make it a heritage railway with steam trains in 1970 when it closed but fell short with the funds to do it.
Would have been great.
Does anyone know what class dmu was used on this line.?
after research class 103 the last few years until closure.
AWESOME....was on the trackbed yesterday......have we lost some overhead national grid cables or am I so used to seeing them. The Brickyard looks like something left over from a secret military experiment. If you know the Middlewood Way, watch it over and over and you will recognise more places each time. Still remember ''the foam place'' at Bollington , houses now occupy the site.......GREAT FIND.....p.s. The driver of last up train on Saturday night 3.1.1970 is still alive ( as at 16.6. 2018 )and living in Cheadle Hulme.
Amazing footage to come across.I went school in Macclesfield and caught the train home everyday to Prestbury. The Marple dmu train always left before us I always remember the squealing noise on the rails as it went onto the curve past the signal box and off along the viaduct past the gasworks. Never knew it was double track after the station junction and sadly never went on the line but remember the closure notice which caused travel problems for all the school kids that used it daily.
Thanks for your memories. I never travelled on the line either, it had closed by the time I moved to Bollington.
i live behind the old track(middle wood way) since 1978, most of the infrastructure was still there then. the coal yard, signal boxes ect. i can almost see my house on this film. great stuff. thanks
Thanks Bob, glad you enjoyed it!
Tragic they pulled up this line. Many childhood memories riding a bike up "the old railway" before it became the Middlewood Way. Gobsmacked to see it in service. Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic discovery!
Higher Poynton would have been my nearest station from home and it's amazing to see such exclusive footage of this former line.
Liked the bits around Middlewood too; seeing both the brooks and station (both of which are still visible to this day).
Fantastic movie. Thank you for finding it.
I thought for a moment that the man walking along the platform towards the camera at the end was Alan Wicker.
wow 3 years since this comment was posted
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This is great Tim !
I uploaded a piece of work I did on his railway, in March 2020, to Flickr, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/49683351787/
for all the details, pictures and commentary.Some original pictures of my own, taken in 1972, feature prominently..